Hi, I installed Jessie on a new computer about 2 months ago. I needed Jessie to support my network interface. Since then I noticed that I seeing almost no updates in Synaptic, or when using apt-get. During the same period on my old computer (also running Jessie) see packages almost constantly updating.
I did look at a few things on both systems previously and didn't see anything I could recognize as causing the difference. Today however I opened the preferences in Synaptic and changed the preferred distribution from 'Always prefer highest' to 'Prefer versions from Testing'. Low and behold I now have a very large number of updates waiting. But, I don't think I should have to make that change to get normal updates. I'm thinking this has something to do with the repositories, which are different between the 2 computers. Here is my repositories list: deb http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main contrib non-free deb-src http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates non-free contrib main deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ jessie main non-free contrib deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ jessie main non-free contrib deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ jessie-updates non-free contrib main deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ jessie-updates non-free contrib main deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ jessie-backports main contrib non-free deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ jessie-backports main contrib non-free deb http://www.deb-multimedia.org/ jessie main non-free deb http://packages.mate-desktop.org/repo/debian/ jessie main # deb http://linux.dropbox.com/debian/ wheezy main My guess is the behavior I'm seeing is related to either the 'jessie-backports' or 'jessie-updates' repositories, but I don't know why I ended up with them or why I would (or would not) want them. Should I just change them to 'jessie'? Thanks, Jon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CANcvmg3o_3JwQfswfrRmqyGuW_B+_Wewfn7CF=5m2gpb13g...@mail.gmail.com